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The International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems is a forum for the presentation and discussion of approaches, research findings, and experiences in the area of parallel and distributed real-time systems. Both research and development of relevant technologies are of interest, as well as the applications built using such technologies. This year features 4 special and invited sessions that highlight recent advances in real-time systems. Submissions to both general sessions and special sessions are solicited.

General Paper Sessions
These sessions will present high-quality papers submitted to the workshop and selected by the program committee for presentation and publication at WPDRTS.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Adaptive and reflective real-time systems
  • Applications, benchmarks, and tools
  • Architectures and hardware/software co-design
  • Distributed real-time and embedded middleware
  • Fault-tolerance, security, and robustness
  • Real-time operating systems
  • Real-time and embedded databases
  • Soft real-time and mixed-critical systems
  • Algorithms and Applications
  • QoS based resource management and real-time scheduling
  • Programming languages and environments
  • Specification, modeling, and analysis of real-time systems
  • Certification of resource managers
  • Real-time communication protocols and architecture



Special and Invited Sessions:

Formal methods for distributed real-time systems
special session co-chairs: Ansgar Fehnker, University of New South Wales, Australia,
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, NEC Laboratories, USA

This Special Session provides a platform for work that employs Formal Methods for design and analysis of distributed and time critical systems. The session is focused on:

  • Verification and validation
  • Formal techniques for performance evaluation
  • Formal modeling in systems design
  • Scheduling and optimization
  • Schedulability analysis
  • Case studies that demonstrate the use of formal methods in the above areas.

Automotive systems
special session chair: Michaela Huhn, University of Braunschweig, Germany

The automotive domain is a challenging application area for the tight integration of systems with different realtime characteristics.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to: network integration in the automotive domain, e.g. the optimization of bus configuration and deployment, design space exploration with respect to realtime issues, analysis techniques for automotive specific application domains, bus systems or operating systems. But also future challenges are of interest: The reconfiguration of nodes and connections a network in case of failures or multidimensional analysis and optimization techniques taking e.g. the realtime behaviour and the power management into account.
The session hopes to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry, to present challenges and solutions in this demanding field.

Certification of Dynamic and Adaptive Systems
special session co-chairs: Paul R. Work, Raytheon Company, USA
Adam Porter, University of Maryland, USA

The verification, validation, and eventual certification of dynamic and adaptive systems is a challenging set of activities both intellectually and, at this time, physically, due to the limits of the state of research and technology in this area. Many more systems are being built using today?s dynamic technologies to achieve significant operational capabilities in a timely manner and yet some will need to operate safely and all will need to perform reliably. This is complicated further if these solutions need to do so in a low latency environment with little to no failure cases.The purpose of this session is to bring to light research and development being performed (or even, just being dreamed of) to look at the scalability problems with certifying dynamic and adaptive solutions.
The material to be covered varies from static a priori analysis through to collection and analysis done while a system (or system of systems) is operating. These will cover: intelligent instrumentation, statistical analysis, to defining, testing, and analysis of operating boundaries and boundedness.

Wireless sensor networks
special session chair: William Leal, Ohio State University, USA

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Communication protocols,
  • high-level operating system and programming abstractions,
  • middleware and service architectures,
  • configuration management, testbeds,
  • in-network information processing,
  • security,
  • novel applications and experience reports,
  • resource discovery and management,
  • QoS issues,
  • disconnected and weakly-connected WSNs,
  • tools and methodologies forbuilding WSNs.